The Times - Specialist - July 12 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The Times - Specialist - Sunday Times GK Jumbo No 222
Clues	Answers
“A ____ cord is not quickly broken” (Ecclesiastes)	THREEFOLD
“If anything might ____ him now / The kind old sun will know” (Wilfred Owen)	ROUSE
“The best bunker buster” according to Scott Ritter, a UN weapons inspector in Iraq in the 1990s	DIPLOMAT
“Whatever our souls are made of, ____” (Wuthering Heights)	his and mine are the same
A bitter bark formerly used in medicine	ANGOSTURA
Aircraft manufacturer founded in Seattle in 1916	BOEING
America golfer, nicknamed The King, who won the Open in 1961 and 1962	Arnold Palmer
American social reformer and suffragist who worked closely with Elizabeth Stanton	Susan B Anthony
American union leader and criminal, played by Jack Nicholson in a 1992 film	Jimmy Hoffa
An Italian lady	SIGNORA
Animal in the same family as humans and some great apes	HOMINID
Australian tennis player, winner of four 1950s grand slam men’s singles titles	Lew Hoad
British javelin thrower whose main rival in the 1980s was Petra Felke	Fatima Whitbread
By PH Newby, the first winner of the Booker Prize	Something to Answer For
Canadian tennis player, runner-up to Andy Murray in the 2016 Wimbledon men’s singles final	Milos Raonic
Carmarthenshire’s largest town	LLANELLI
Clerical office which is an anagram of SUNDAY BEER	subdeanery
Daughter of Polonius and lover of Hamlet	OPHELIA
Ecological zone, often named after its main vegetation	BIOME
English furniture style of the late 18th century	SHERATON
Fastener with two arms pushed through a hole and bent	split pin
Grandma and Chalkie often appeared in cartoons by ____	GILES
Having a pale brown-yellow colour	OCHREOUS
Hexahedrons of dehydrated bouillon	stock cubes
In French, “faire du ____” is to go cycling	VELO
In Zambia, one hundredth of a kwacha	NGWEE
John Major’s successor as leader of the Conservative party	William Hague
Kos, Santorini, and Rhodes are some of the ____	Aegean Islands
Language with the oldest vernacular literature in Western Europe	IRISH
Leguminous tree whose wood is often used as barbecue fuel in the southern USA	MESQUITE
London football club managed by Mikel Arteta	ARSENAL
Malta’s northwesterly island neighbour	GOZO
Mapping or study of the moon’s features	selenography
Roman poet who had a feud with his former friend Nero	LUCAN
Skin condition characterised by red blisters and itchiness	ECZEMA
Star Trek character originally played by James Doohan, and more recently by Simon Pegg	Montgomery Scott
Swiss ski resort, a popular destination for the international jet set	GSTAAD
The capital of Dominica	ROSEAU
The first British player to participate in a 20th-century world chess championship final	Nigel Short
The former status of this town in Angus is reflected in the name of its football team	BRECHIN
The Isle of Man’s Tynwald comprises the Legislative Council and the ____	House of Keys
The Open University’s home town	milton keynes
The windpipe	TRACHEA
Trader exploiting market imperfections	arbitrager
____ Kettle were hillbillies with 15 children in a 1940s and 1950s Universal Studios comedy series	Ma and Pa
____ played Howard Kirk in the 1981 BBC adaptation of Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man	Antony Sher